P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
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The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government undertakes to make everything good for everybody, this is what happens. And he addresses it to socialists of all parties.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.
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The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.